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0000014676 00000 n It is the KAPD that is the foil for many of Lenin’s general arguments. Contributing to the stalling and collapse of the workers’ movements in Poland, Iran and South Africa was of course the gathering crisis in the Soviet Union and its satellites which exploded, or rather imploded, in 1989. Nevertheless the Comintern had been shifting.

0000012568 00000 n Of course, we should exercise extreme caution before making superficially plausible hindsight critical judgments on Luxemburg and Liebknecht.

0000012413 00000 n We “always adhered to this policy”, but at the same time “we never stopped our ideological and political struggle against them as opportunists and vehicles of bourgeois influence on the proletariat”.11, The Bolsheviks were ready for any allies, however surprising. The volume is introduced by Doug Lorimer, who gives a useful synopsis of the political method behind Lenin's specific arguments — winning over the politically advanced working-class activists, then with this group beginning the process of winning over broader masses of workers.

0000013746 00000 n 0000013653 00000 n 0000008062 00000 n 0000018858 00000 n It came out on June 8–10 in Russian and in July was published in German, English and French. They turned the Lenin and Gramsci arguments inside out. 0000011040 00000 n This article is an adaptation and development of talks given on this subject at the International Socialism conference in September 2012 and the Historical Materialism conference in November 2012. It did not mention the need for solidarity with the successful seizure of power by workers in Russia in October 1917 and the bitter struggle to defend this historic development that had raged throughout Russia in 1918. Masses (28 k) and English languages respectively. By July 1921 at least Gramsci had belatedly realised the serious threat that fascism posed and called for Communists to support the ADP.25 But Bordiga disagreed. However, because of the abject failure of the KPD conference to adopt policies to fit the situation and recruit worker leaders like Richard Müller and Ernst Däumig, and potentially thousands of others,51 it failed to build the unified leadership and hence could not properly provide socialist direction for the strike movement.52 Nevertheless Luxemburg’s intervention, in principle even if it could not be carried out in practice, confirms the validity of the united front perspective implicit in Lenin’s LWC, including Gramsci’s refinements. Articoli visualizzati di recente e suggerimenti in primo piano, Seleziona la categoria in cui desideri effettuare la ricerca. Congress of the Communist International, each delegate receiving [4], Lenin critiques the Workers Socialist Federation's opposition to parliamentary action and in particular to affiliation to the Labour Party through texts written by Sylvia Pankhurst and Willie Gallacher. %PDF-1.3 %����

She/he has to overcome the numbing ideological inheritance from the past, but cannot do this alone.

Against these arguments Lenin wrote one of his most important pamphlets Left Wing Communism – An Infantile Disorder which subjected the ideas of the ultra-lefts to devastating criticism. 0000012754 00000 n It is a shame more lefties don't take a day off from their egos and read this. 0000012816 00000 n As in Germany the soviets, the workers’ councils, were dominated by reformist voices calling for a national assembly. The demands would involve workers experiencing and hence acting directly to bring about a fundamental shift in power at the productive base of society and hence of the revolution itself. Lenin even called it “obligatory” on the party of the revolutionary proletariat to stand candidates. All of them, some sincerely, others less so, were enthusiasts for the revolution and its working class majority. But we also learn that pressures from the old society will undermine these new structures unless a highly sophisticated revolutionary socialist party, ideologically innovative, rapidly developing a mass base in the revolution, can intervene and give it direction. Nevertheless this is a legitimate area for investigation. 0000007484 00000 n opportunism on the one hand, and anti-Marxist ultraleftism on

Our side is — and always will be — that of the 99%. card. Per uscire dalla sequenza utilizza il tasto di scelta rapida relativo alle intestazioni per accedere all'intestazione precedente o a quella successiva. “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder is a work by Lenin published in 1920.

It called for: “Immediate establishment of regular communication with international socialist parties in order to provide the socialist revolution with an international platform and to administer and secure peace by the fraternisation and the revolutionary uprising of the world proletariat”-Kuhn,2012, p105.

Lenin counterposes "a compromise enforced by objective conditions ... which in no way minimises the revolutionary devotion and readiness to carry on the struggle" and "a compromise by traitors who try to ascribe to objective causes their self interest". Above all this meant working within the reformist trade unions as well as taking national parliamentary, regional and local elections very seriously.

Communists and the independents in Germany “Left-Wing” In Iran the ultra-loyal pro-Soviet Tudeh Party was itself virtually obsolete. 0000008783 00000 n Now online: Syrian revolutionary socialist Ghayath Naisse interviewed on the brutalisation of Syria, the goals of those intervening and the prospects for socialists in the region. Moderator of r/ShitUltraLeftistsSay Archived. It should be read alongside the following chapters, “Days of Workers Power” in Harman, 1982, pp52-72, especially the last part, and “The Period of Dual Power”, Broué, 2006, pp157-188. Non è stato possibile aggiungere l'articolo alla Lista.

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